"Mayonaka ya
Furikawari taru
Ama-no-gawa"
- Ransetsu
["The dead of night.
Behold the Milky Way
Its situation is entirely changed."]
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Mamet on Writing
Filed Friday, March 26 2010.
"SOMEONE HAS TO MAKE THE SCENE DRAMATIC. IT IS NOT THE ACTORS JOB (THE ACTORS JOB IS TO BE TRUTHFUL). IT IS NOT THE DIRECTORS JOB. HIS OR HER JOB IS TO FILM IT STRAIGHTFORWARDLY AND REMIND THE ACTORS TO TALK FAST. IT IS YOUR JOB."
- David Mamet, from a must-read memo to the writers of The Unit.